Insurance plans accepted: BlueCross and BlueShield
Cigna: Wellfleet Medicare  Optum: Allways, VACCN, UnitedHealthcare, Health Plans Inc, Oxford, UMR, Mass General Brigham Point32: Tufts Public, Tufts Health Plans, Harvard Pilgrim Tufts Commercial Tufts Public Out-of-Pocket/Self-Paid

Location: Amherst, Hybrid

Banu believes in co-creating and co-fostering a therapeutic relationship that is safe, contained and dynamic. Through this relationship, she helps individuals, couples and families navigate the parts of themselves and their relationships that are causing stuckness and difficulty. Using a trauma-informed approach, she believes deeply in collaboration while emotionally holding clients as they wade through the work they set out for themselves. Trained in psychodynamic processes, she incorporates behavioral-cognitive interventions and perspectives through a client-centered approach. She also has a passion for writing and the expressive arts, both of which she uses in therapy along with mindfulness tools and exercises.

Banu earned a MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. She has been in private practice for over 20 years.